Yes, I think the GHIN app will calculate it for you.

USGA's website will do it as well.
our group has done it for a couple of years and it makes a difference, especially when everyone is playing the same tees (most of the time).

" Handicap stroke holes are established to maximize the number of halved holes in a match by assigning strokes where player A most needs his four strokes in order to obtain a half on those holes. If both A and B receive strokes on those four holes, the better player (B) will have a greater chance of winning those holes."


That's the quote I found.

This - always just add everyone and the tees their playing to the app and it spits out the strokes.

Haven't played in a while, is golf still hard?

Last time i played, 9th tee of 18 hole course after i hit 7 iron off the tee to start the 240 yard hole:

"If you didn't lay up we were going to tell you to go ahead without us." - One of the lovely ladies that let me join them for the last 4 holes of their 9, stuck behind some slow pokes.

I broke the club head off of the shaft of my 7-iron at the range and spoke to an employee at the PGA Superstore about getting a new shaft and having them attach the head. He said to get a shaft online with a tapered tip I believe. So looking at Golfworks online for my model of shaft I saw that there is an option called "tip prepping". Is that the same as a tapered tip?? Golfworks describes tip prepping as abrading the tip for a steel shaft for reference.

Paging Bo.....

Tip prepping is sanding and/or roughing up the surface of the shaft tip so it can more easily adhere to the head once the epoxy has been applied. That's why when you pull a shaft out clean the tip is usually a different color.

There are two types of iron shafts, tapered tip and parallel tip. Naturally a tapered tip shaft is bigger in diameter at the tip than a parallel shaft. In the end both types of shaft play about the same.

The way Superstore does things sometimes makes me laugh. You go in there for a broken shaft and they tell you to buy one online? Isn't that one of the reasons they are in business, to sell you golf equipment?

Just get the shaft and whoever installs it for you should automatically prep the tip if they have a clue as to what they are doing.

Thanks for the insight. The guy at the store actually first looked to see if they had the same shaft in stock and only told me to look online after he saw that they didn't have it or one with similar specs.

When I told a lady working at the range to help me retrieve the club head, she said another worker would help in a few minutes. It turned out that the guy who was to help went looking out on the range in the ball retriever that I told the lady I was specifically concerned might run over it. Sure enough he ran right over it and it bounced up in the air and some dirt got jammed into the hosel! The club head looked totally fine to the naked eye, so I guess it was unaffected, but it was so hilarious that in trying to get help I ended up courting "disaster". I ended up just telling other golfers to hold off for a moment as I have done in the past while I retrieved the club head. For some reason my self-consciousness got the best of me on this occasion.

Ruh-roh:

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id...ve-nda-dispute

Do you guys do a gapping session on a range or in a sim?

The course im a member of has Trackman bays in the range and a Trackman sim you can hire. As far as i can see both have their cons.

- Range : Any sort of into/from behind wind will skew your numbers. Im also slightly skeptical of the "premium ball conversion" and how accurate that is, but that is by no means a solid read.

- Sim : Not sure how to word this, but lets say a freezing cold january morning is a 0 for distance, a scorching hot August day is a 10. Well where exactly does a simulator fall on that scale? Presumably somewhere in the middle, so again will the results be that usable outside of april/may?

Interested to hear anyone's opinion on the matter! I do get the feeling doing it on a sim is more standard, whenever i see golf shops / clubs advertising a paid gapping session, it always seems to be on the sim, but without really thinking about it too much ive always done mine on the range. It was only today when i arrived at the range to do one and was met with a strong head on wind that made me rethink my decision.

trackman sim sucks. not the software...they stole that....because of the device. radar sucks indoors. I've not used it in a bay situation where the radar can track full distance, but still using the sim for visual reference, so no opinion there....other than trackman sucks.

GSPro will show you the raw launch monitor numbers, as well as the in-game distance, based on the software algorithm. You can use either one in practice.

Camera based launch monitor >>>> radar for simulator use in general and indoors especially.

The standard TM does suck indoors, I just don't know if their indoor sim uses that technology or a more standard cam technology.

One crappy day we had a tour player in the sim who wanted to use his TM for data as opposed to the sim data. Found out quick that there was a significant difference.

The majority of fittings should be done indoors on a sim unless you're a very, very good player. Gap fitting should be fine because even if the sim data is long or short for some reason, as long as the numbers are consistent, that's what you want for gaps.

The normalization feature on TM for range balls does a good enough job.

WTF?

that was not MacKenzie's original design, you can blame that one on Clifford Roberts.
https://evalu18.com/evolution-augusta-national/

I asked ChatGPT for a golf Haiku:

Swing smooth, follow through
Ball soars through the sky, then drops
Green awaits, hushed hope.

That one was so good, I asked for another:

Gentle rolling hills
Soft whisper of wind through trees
Peaceful greens await.

This is just beautiful.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

Ben Lamb was the guest on Subpar this week (Colt Knost and Drew Stolz), it's worth a listen for the golf gambling stories.

Thanks for this.

One thing that always amazes me is what kind of stupid ****ing questions non-poker players come up with.

I constantly find myself in spots where I can't get there with a 52 and a PW is too much. So I try to ease off on a PW, which I suck at, and the results just aren't there. Well today I decided to spend the whopping $5 and get the 52 bent to 50. I'm expecting brilliance tomorrow.

Now what happens when you get the 52 yardage and have to ease off the 50 because it's too much?

Ha, I did think about this. Maybe I should take a club bender on the course with me. "Give me a minute to dial this wedge in guys."

Easy answer, MOAR WEDGES. 50/52/54/56/58/60 setup seems completely reasonable.

I like it Booker. Maybe just driver and wedges.

Please don't give Patrick Cantelay this idea.

Sometimes pros play with 5 wedges, so naturally us ams should play with 6, right?

Ok, fine, more seriously. Nothing wrong with fiddling with your setup. What others do you have in your bag? I went from a 50-54-60 setup to 52-58, since I'm a short hitter I don't have as much territory to cover.